10 Jan 2010 - "The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern
Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather
that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years," says this article in (UK)
MailOnline.

Much of our climate is controlled by naturally occurring cycles, say
some of the world's most eminent climate scientists.

Among the most prominent of the scientists is Professor Mojib Latif, who
leads a research team at the Leibniz Institute at Germany's Kiel
University.

Prof Latif "has developed new methods for measuring ocean temperatures
3,000ft beneath the surface, where the cooling and warming cycles
start."

Did you catch that? The cooling and warming cycles start 3,000
feet below
the surface of the ocean. This bolsters my contention
that ocean warming
is driven by underwater volcanoes. How could humans
possibly heat the
oceans more than half-a-mile down before we heat the
surface?

Latif and his colleagues predicted the new cooling trend in a 2008 paper
and warned of it again at an IPCC conference last September.

Winters like this one will become much more likely, says Latif. Summers
will also probably be cooler, and all this may well last two decades or
longer.

For Europe, the crucial factor here is the temperature of the water in
the middle of the North Atlantic, now several degrees below its average
when the world was still warming.

These cycles move together in a synchronised way across the globe,
abruptly flipping the world's climate from a "warm mode" to a "cold
mode" and back again in 20 to 30-year cycles, said Prof Anastasios
Tsonis, head of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric Sciences Group.

We therefore can expect 20 or 30 years of cooler temperatures, said Prof
Tsonis. "Perhaps we will see talk of an ice age again by the early
2030s."

"According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado,
Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per
cent, since 2007 - and even the most committed global warming activists
do not dispute this."